Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe-All Our Way (2024)

Published: Sep 26, 2020 · Modified: Sep 25, 2022 by Marisa Franca · 26 Comments

There is nothing better than Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup made with a whole chicken that is slowly simmered with celery, carrots and onions. It's the whole chicken that makes the broth extra rich, full of flavor and loaded with nutrition.

The healing power

At the first sign of a sniffle, I remember my mamma would pull out the old battered soup pot, throw in a whole chicken, plus celery, onion, carrots, peppercorns and she'd go about making homemade chicken noodle soup.

Sometimes she would make it like a drop egg soup called Stracciatella or add a of citrus in it for her Lemon Orzo Soup. Mamma thought any soup with chicken stock as the main feature the best medicine in the world. And the simplicity of her homemade Chicken Noodle Soup was at the top of the list.

I have to agree. One sip of the hot steamy broth and it seemed like I felt better immediately.

Many other cultures believe in the healing powers of chicken soup. In fact the chicken soup is without a doubt a symbol of Jewish Cuisine.

"Magical" ingredients

• Chicken broth -- The chemicals in chicken broth reduce the symptoms of a sore throat and blocked nose. Also it provides hydration and nutrition both important in fighting colds and flu.
• Onion -- Onion contains quercetin, which is natural anti-histamine, anti- inflammatory and a powerful anti-oxidant.
• Carrots -- Carrots are source of beta-caroten, which our body converts into vitamin A. This vitamin helps white cells to fight off infections.
• Chicken Meat -- The Meat contains an amino acid called cysteine, which may thin the mucus in the lungs, hence making it easier to cough out.

Spicing it up

We eat chicken -- a lot.

We stick it in our soups, put in on the grill, bake it with lots of lemon and garlic. We've even been know to fry it a time or twenty 🙂 You'll always find some form of chicken in our freezer. So, whenever we make a dish we've made countless times before, we look for ways to make it just a little bit different.

I'm certainly not saying that our Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup is boring and needs a little flavor boost. Far from that! We just like the challenge of giving a long time favorite a little different take.

Now I know I've mentioned a few times before how much my Honey loves spicy and his Ro-tel tomatoes. (No we are not compensated by them, although we should with as many cans we go through.)

If you don't like spicy, just omit the Ro-tel tomatoes or add drained diced tomatoes to the soup. But before you start with the soup itself you make the stock.

The stock ingredients

• Whole chicken -- to get the benefit of the collagen, vitamins and minerals in the bones.
• Black Peppercorns -- instead of black pepper keeps the broth clearer.
• Celery
• Carrots
• Onion
• Parsley
• Kosher salt

How to prepare soup

It all begins with the chicken bone broth. This will take about 2 hours. You can make the stock the day ahead.

The soup

1. We make the stock and once that's done we remove the chicken and place on platter. Once it is cool enough to handle we shred the chicken.
2. We strain the broth through a sieve and remove and discard the stock vegetables and seasoning.
3. In a Dutch oven we briefly sauté diced carrots, celery and onion.
4. The strained broth goes into the Dutch oven as well as the shredded chicken. This is when inspiration struck!
5. Honey dumped a can of Ro-tel tomatoes into the broth. Now, if you don't like spicy you can eliminate this andthe Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup will still taste wonderful. But between you and me, it was pure genius to put that added kick to the soup. After all, don't they say that spicy food is good for you??
6. Homemade noodles to go into the soup but if you don't have the time or the inclination you can always add the store-bought variety of your choice. The egg noodles are really good.
7. We served the soup with our homemade pretzels. The soup is great for lunch, as a first course, or because you're feeling puny.

I love this recipe of Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup. It's the next best thing to having a great big comforting hug from my mamma.

Quick version

I know, sometimes you really want something but you just don't have the time. I get it!! You can still get some great taste out of this quicker version of Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup. Here is the easiest way to do it:

• Use the meat from a rotisserie chicken and shred it into bite size pieces.
• Buy a good quality Chicken bone broth and use that for the stock.
• Add your favorite purchased noodles for the homemade.
• Follow the directions for the vegetables as written.

Your family will love this recipe. It has so much flavor and the aroma is amazing. Besides being so good, just think of all that nutrition that is fighting the pesky germs floating around.

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Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup loaded with vegetables with a delicious bone broth made from scratch! One pot...one soup! Perfect for any day of the week with a quicker version if you don't have time for the traditional version.

Next time try our Grandma's Chicken and Dumplings recipe with homemade drop biscuits. It is pure comfort food!

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